Pacific island small states - Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults)

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Pacific island small states was 137.48 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 308.86 in 1960 and a minimum value of 122.46 in 2017.

Definition: Adult mortality rate, female, is the probability of dying between the ages of 15 and 60--that is, the probability of a 15-year-old female dying before reaching age 60, if subject to age-specific mortality rates of the specified year between those ages.

Source: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision. (2) University of California, Berkeley, and Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. The Human Mortality Database.

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Year Value
1960 308.86
1961 304.26
1962 299.52
1963 294.91
1964 290.35
1965 285.89
1966 281.54
1967 277.26
1968 273.06
1969 268.87
1970 264.68
1971 260.54
1972 256.39
1973 252.41
1974 248.47
1975 244.55
1976 240.75
1977 236.94
1978 233.98
1979 231.00
1980 228.01
1981 225.02
1982 222.03
1983 220.57
1984 219.20
1985 217.94
1986 216.81
1987 215.79
1988 212.88
1989 209.97
1990 207.02
1991 203.97
1992 200.91
1993 197.85
1994 194.74
1995 191.61
1996 188.45
1997 185.27
1998 181.95
1999 178.61
2000 175.25
2001 171.76
2002 168.24
2003 164.73
2004 161.20
2005 157.64
2006 154.04
2007 150.43
2008 147.27
2009 144.10
2010 140.94
2011 137.74
2012 134.52
2013 132.14
2014 129.75
2015 127.35
2016 124.91
2017 122.46
2018 141.24
2019 139.37
2020 137.48

Development Relevance: Mortality rates for different age groups (infants, children, and adults) and overall mortality indicators (life expectancy at birth or survival to a given age) are important indicators of health status in a country. Because data on the incidence and prevalence of diseases are frequently unavailable, mortality rates are often used to identify vulnerable populations. And they are among the indicators most frequently used to compare socioeconomic development across countries.

Limitations and Exceptions: Data from United Nations Population Division's World Populaton Prospects are originally 5-year period data and the presented are linearly interpolated by the World Bank for annual series. Therefore they may not reflect real events as much as observed data.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The main sources of mortality data are vital registration systems and direct or indirect estimates based on sample surveys or censuses. A "complete" vital registration system - covering at least 90 percent of vital events in the population - is the best source of age-specific mortality data. Where reliable age-specific mortality data are available, life tables can be constructed from age-specific mortality data, and adult mortality rates can be calculated from life tables.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality